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Homo economicus en · PROPN

Etymology

A pseudotaxonomic name, by analogy with Homo sapiens. The earlier term economic man was used for the first time in the late nineteenth century by critics of John Stuart Mill's work on political economy.

Meanings

1. A human being regarded as a rational and narrowly self-interested actor capable of making judgments in order to attain its own particular goals.

Forms

Coordinates

Homo reciprocans

Relateds

homo negronus · Homo superior · Homo idioticus · homo sovieticus · rational choice theory · rational egoism · Homo superioris

Synonyms

economic man · economic human

Translations (5)

vi con người kinh tế (human being) · de rationaler Agent (human being) · de Homo oeconomicus (human being) · pl homo oeconomicus (human being) · it homo oeconomicus (human being)